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obventions

obventions is the plural of obvention.

Meaning of obvention

Noun

obvention (plural obventions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage.
    • Tithes and other obventions.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  2. A church revenue, especially one of an occasional or incidental character.
    • The profits of the churches of London were formerly the oblations and obventions; for which a remedy is given by law: but the Tithes and Profits of the London clergy are now settled and appointed by Act of Parliament.1733, Giles Jacob, “Obventions”, in A New Law-Dictionary, 2nd edition; quoted in “Obvention Bread”, in Notes and Queries, 10 September 1910

Questions about obventions

What is obventions the plural of?
Obventions is the plural of obvention.

Words near obventions in the dictionary

  1. obv
  2. obv.
  3. obvallate
  4. obvelation
  5. obvention
  6. obventions
  7. obversant
  8. obverse
  9. obversely
  10. obverses
  11. obversion

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